1849 they had on hand several thousand bushels of coal, 2,250,000 feet of lumber, and twenty-two of the finest merchantmen cars running on the r a ilroad fr om Columbia to Philadelphia and Baltimore. The firm owned nine thou- sand dollars worth of stock in the Columbia Bridge company and eighteen

time in his career, he painted signs and banners ; he also made and gilded frames. On a silk banner painted by him for the Washington Fire Company of Louisville, Kentucky, is repre- sented Washington and his family on the portico at Mount Vernon, with the Potomac, dotted with sails, seen in the near

M. Bausman, has noted the liberal contributions of money, clothing and provisions made by the inhabitants of the borough and county of Lancaster in response to the urgent appeal for assistance. In the summer of 1797, yellow fever again ravaged Philadelphia. The disease made its appearance on the

Collections in Aid of the Sufferers from Fire in Columbia By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, October 25th, 1822, at eleven o'clock at night, a fire originated in the back building attached to the tavern of a man named Quarles, in Columbia, Lancaster county, Pa. Before the fire could be

paper was written my attention has been called to a meeting of the "Columbia Grays" and "Columbia Hunters" which was held in the town hall in Columbia, Pa., on Saturday evening, November 17th, 1832. Captain Michael Way was appointed president, Captain James Haughy vice-president, and Moses Montgomery

Tennesseean, passed through Columbia in the Rail Road Cars on his way from Philadelphia, where he had spent the fourth inst., to the far west. He was invited to remain a day or two among us, but declined on account of his desire to reach home, from which he had been absent eight months. He said that he had

society whose moral conduct (not less than their theoretical [theological?] opinions) is well adapted to promote 'Peace on earth, and good will toward men'. "Accept, my friends, a cordial wish for your happiness individually, and for the general prosperity of the society to which you belong. "Thomas

, on Saturday, Septem- ber 2nd, of that year, Lancaster apparently existed without the thrill of a circus until the summer of 1809, when Pepin and Bres- chard came with their famous show. One is unable to account for the twelve-year interval of inactivity along this line between the departure of

, and the Ameri- can Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. It may be of interest to learn that an inhabitant of Lancaster county, James Wright, of Columbia, had the unique distinction of being a member of both organizations. On the 8th of April, 1768, he was elected a member of